They are, if characters with wings also have a cutting edge, making them Absurdly Sharp. A variant of this is having plane-esque wings that are sharpened/given cutting edge; this often comes up more in flying vessels and occasionally Jet Packs.

Mazinger Z has the Scramble Cutter, an attack in which he uses his Jet Scrambler's wings to slice into the enemy. Great Mazinger goes one step further with the Great Booster. Mazinkaiser takes it to the next step with the Kaiser Boomerang. Of course, that's probably cheating as it throws its Scrander.

In Usagi Yojimbo, the Komori ninja are clan of ninja bats who typically line the outer edges of their wings with long blades to make for deadly attacks in flight.

Fan Fic

In Winter War, Pagally's resurrection gives her deceptively soft-looking wings that are actually razor-edged, as shown when she uses them in battle against the Nemu clones.

GLaDOS's pony form in Better Living Through Science and Ponies has wings that "were built somewhat like feathered wings, but the feathers were were replaced with large, bristling bits of razor sharp metal. Appendages that could undoubtedly provide flight but also be used to cut a certain dull orange pony to ribbons.".

Child of the Storm has Archangel, who, like his current comics counterpart, has these but retains his otherwise human appearance. He's utterly miserable about them, which isn't surprising, since they essentially mean he Can't Have Sex, Ever or even hold someone without risking chopping them to pieces.

The Savage Skies series has Perlin Bluestreak, whose feathers were replaced with razor-sharp blades.

Film

Legion: the angel Gabriel has very sharp wings. He eviscerates a few people with them, and they're also bulletproof.

In How to Train Your Dragon, there's a passing mention of the "Timberjack" species, whose wings can slice right through trees.

Marcus of Underworld uses his wings to impale targets, as well as fly.

Dark Sun has a semi-sentient monster called "razorwing". It's a pteradon-like creature with sharp bone edges on its wings (span about 8'). Big inflexible wings are good only for gliding, and get bad maneuverability even then, but telekinetic flight power allows razorwings to rapidly accelerate from ambush. Though since they live in the Sea of Silt, the usual prey is a slow hydrogen jellyfish anyway.

Dark Eldar wyches sometimes serve as fast attack units by riding jetbikes that are equipped with razor-edged fins, among other weapons. While the fins are not necessary for flying, they do use them for very close fly-by attacks, and even have a points system based on using specific fins to cut specific arteries on their victims.

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows has Vulture, who flies using a set of levitating swords that can hover independently or link to the backpack on his body. Even in the latter case, they still hover a few inches apart from one another, as shown here.◊

The Murakumo units from the BlazBlue series have "wings" made of blades that are used for their heavy attacks.

In the sixth game of the Mega Man Battle Network series, Mega Man can throw the wings of his Tomahawk Beast form like boomerangs as a charged attack.

In Starcraft, when Kerrigan gets turned into the Queen Of Blades she gains exoskeletal, bone-like wings. Which are all bladed and can move faster than the eye can follow. Her title isn't for nothing.

Western Animation

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. While they don't actually cut anything with them, the wings of Princess Celestia's pegasus guards do have Audible Sharpness. A later episode proves it is not just for show. Apparently, pegasi wind magic can generate a Razor Wind - a flyby from a member of Wonderbolts was capable of cutting through dragon scales.

The Venture Bros.: The Monarch's "Deaths Head Panoply", a Powered Armor suit that is completely inflexible and allows no limb movement whatsoever is only capable of motion through the use of some deployable wings on the back. Said wings are sharp enough to decapitatehenchmen who do not get out of the way fast enough when activating them.

Real Life

Like many jets built after the Korean War, the F-104 Starfighter was designed to go as fast as the engines of the day could carry it. One of the design decisions made to increase speed was wings so thin and sharp, they came with protective covers so the ground crews would not be injured.

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